The presentation on Edgar Allen Poe’s story The Black Cat begins with an opening discussion of five discussion questions that evaluate and explore the meaning of the story‚ such as the story’s theme‚ symbols‚ and characters. Around the group‚ members will discuss their different opinions and interpretations of the story by supporting their claim with textual evidence. After the brief discussion for about ten minutes‚ the illustrator would showcase their art to the group and explain his or her interpretation
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The Historical Context Behind Hamlet’s Procrastination Among the most influential and popular English tragedies‚ William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark or Hamlet is still known for its structure and rich characterization that lead to the critical scrutiny the play enjoys today. A centuries-old debate‚ the reason for Hamlet’s delay in killing Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle who killed his brother and married his sister-in-law‚ was first seen as a necessary feature of the plot and
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The black population in America has always been oppressed and abused in some sort of way‚ but the depth of the abuse that black females have had to deal with never really seems to take the spotlight. Black Female Executions in Historical Context by David V. Baker and Drug Offenses‚ Gender‚ Ethnicity‚ and Nationality Women in Prison in England and Wales by Janice Joseph both look in depth into the amount of unfairness and inequality that black females have faced in the past and present. Baker starts
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In Poe’s “ The Black Cat” The narrator is married early ‚ One night the narrator comes home intoxicated and gets the feeling his cat is resenting him‚ “Filled with Anger” he cuts his “Beloved cat” Pluto eye out and hangs the dead animal. Soon his wife sees it action the next day and he kills her as well. Not long after the horrendous murders. The police finds the bodies hidden in the wall and the house is burned down."This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil-and yet I should be at
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Character of "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ "The Black Cat" involves a man and his love hate relationship for animals that ends in sin. He describes himself as loving animals of all kinds‚ "I was especially fond of animals‚ and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets"(307). The character of this story goes through some changes of his own. After giving much love and care to his animals he starts to abuse them‚ goes as far to kill them and then commits the ultimate
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The narrators that are usually found in Poe’s short stories are unreliable due to various reasons. In The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart both of their narrators share some unreliable qualities. However‚ I found the narrator of The Black Cat more unreliable than the one from The Tell-Tale Heart because I found more unreliable qualities in The Black Cat narrator. With both of these stories being told in the first person perspective it only shares the narrator’s side of the story‚ and not giving
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types of literature. In literary works like “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving‚ and “Prey” y Richard Matheson‚ gothic elements are displayed in the form of: violence‚ death‚ blood‚ and supernatural to show how despicable and unreal scenarios can lead people into a dangerous path. Violence can be described as the use of physical force as to injure‚ abuse or damage someone or something. In “The Black Cat” ‚ vengeful acts are displayed as extremely violent
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Many people believe that black cats bring bad luck or represent death. The superstition and myths of cats still remain. I believe that the story “The Black Cat” illustrates well that belief‚ within this story of a man with misfortunate events throughout his life. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of The Black Cat. He was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts and was the son of two actors. Poe was very much involved with literature and he was an American writer‚ editor‚ and literary critic. Well-known for
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story‚ “The Black Cat”. His life became a mystery to everyone. His mother died when he was three years old‚ and his father left the family early on. Growing up without a father has many effects on the human brain and can lead to anger issues and some people turn to alcohol and drugs. You can see in many of his poems and short stories‚ that like his characters‚ he was insane. In The Black Cat he shows many signs of insanity and violence. As his insanity was developing he thought his cat Pluto was
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dashed the brains out‚ had I so sworn as you Have done to this‚” she is able to force Macbeth into betraying Duncan and Banquo to gain the crown (The Tragedy of Macbeth). While Lady Macbeth is the abuser in Macbeth‚ The Wife is the victim of abuse in Black Cat as “I [The Narrator] suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length‚ I even offered her personal violence.” (Poe).
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